• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    The EU’s choice is more like “bow to a monster” or “become a monster.” Big powers act like big powers. If Europe as a whole becomes like the US, then it will start acting internationally in many of the same ways as the US.

    • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      then it will start acting internationally in many of the same ways as the US.

      Have you heard of colonization?

    • keepthepace@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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      10 days ago

      The conservative credo “the past defines the possible” or “nothing new is ever conceivable”

      A new power learning the lessons from the past? Can’t have that!

    • lemming@sh.itjust.works
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      10 days ago

      Why should it? EU has a large economy and a lot of people. If it managed to unite, at least when facing a threat, it could easilybe a major global power.